More on Prop 8 in California

I just received the following authored by Jim Garlow.  Note the web links and check them out as you can.  Jim Garlow is a pastor from Del Mar CA.  I think the thing that strikes me the most is that this issue has been voted on twice in CA. and both times, the opposition has refused to acknowlege and accept the fact that the majority of citizens in CA. don’t believe that marriage is anything but a coveneant uniion between one man and one woman.  Again, this is where we must fight this battle spiritually, for this is the force behind of all this opposition.  Pray!

BASIC FACTS
With a solid victory (52% to 48%) on election night which restored marriage as “one man – one woman,” many of us assumed – mistakenly – that the “No on 8” campaign would recognize that the voters had expressed themselves on this, twice, in fact.
 
As you may know, thirty states have voted on this issue, and thirty states have affirmed that marriage is one man – one woman.  The national average “pass rate” is 68 percent – meaning that almost 7 out of 10 Americans have voted that marriage is one man – one woman in 30 states.  However, as we shall share later, what the anti-marriage crowd cannot get by the democratic process they try to coerce by judicial tyranny and by mob action. 
 
The percentage of people who voted for Prop 8 is the same percentage as the national popular vote for Barak Obama.  Yet the “No on 8” people refuse to accept that fact.
 
This issue was thoroughly vetted in the electoral process.  This is the largest amount spent for a non-economic proposition ($80 million).  In fact, more people voted on Prop 8 (for or against) than the total number of people who voted in California for both Obama and McCain put together.
 
Democracy has winners.  It has losers.  They lost.  But the “No on 8” side will not accept that, even after two elections (2000 and 2008) on this same topic.
 
THEIR RESPONSE
They are now refusing to accept it, asking the CA Supreme Court to overturn our new constitutional amendment.
 
Secondly, they have taken to the streets.  There were 20,000 marchers on the streets here in San Diego last Saturday, only one of some 300 cities.
 
Thirdly, religious bigotry is happening across our state with so many acts of violence – towards both persons and property.   We are asking people to report these to ProtectMarriageCA@4sd.net   As soon as we can, we shall post these Persecution Alerts on www.ProtectMarriageCA.com   Bricks have been thrown through church windows.  Church buildings have been defaced.  Pastors have been threatened.  Cars damaged.  Likely a quarter of a million signs were stolen.  Worst of all, some people have been beaten.
 
Spilling out into other states, the radical pro-homosexual lobby disrupted a service at Mount Hope Church in Lansing , MI , literally taking over the service, as parishioners sat there stunned.  See http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/lansing/article-2302-gay-anarchist-action-hits-church.html
 
I want you to see the mob action that occurred in San Francisco , CA last Friday night.  Thirteen twenty year olds from a ministry known as the Justice House of Prayer (part of the Kansas City based “The Call” ministry) gather every Friday night to sing worship songs and play guitars in the Castro District, just like they have done each weekend for three years.
 
But this past weekend, in the wake of Prop 8 successful passage, an angry mob surrounded them, knocked two of the girls down, hit them in the face, poured hot coffee on them.  At that point, the men placed the girls in the middle of a “huddle” while the angry thugs encircled them.
 
Watch these two videos.  The first was taken, we are told, by Channel 2.  The second was taken by a homosexual in the Castro District.  These will give you a feel for what is being experienced.  Watch this:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrRxFoBSPng 
Secondly, watch this one:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGAs_09HLHs
 
LARRY KING
We have been trying to respond in numerous ways, including media interviews.  I have done approximately 130 interviews on Prop 8.  I was one of four guests on Larry King last Friday night, up against Mayor Gavin Newsome of San Francisco .
 
DR. PHIL
I will be a guest on the Dr. Phil show, this Friday, Nov. 21, on CBS stations near you (it airs at 3pm in San Diego , but check local times for listing).   We taped the show today.  On my side are Maggie Gallagher (National Organization for Marriage) and Jeff Flint (Schubert-Flint Company directed the “Yes on 8” campaign).  Opposing us are Mayor Gavin Newsome ( San Francisco ), Gloria Allred (leftist attorney) and Joe Solmonese (Humuan Rights Campaign, a national homosexual organization, the major funder of “No on 8”).
 
With these guests, plus a fired-up studio audience that hassled, yelled, catcalled and tried to drown us out at times, it made for an (how do I say this?) interesting experience.  It was so intense that Dr. Phil – after the one hour taping had ended – decided to keep us there for another taping, for another show to be aired (we are told) in December.
 
You might want to encourage your friends to watch this Friday, Nov 21.  As you watch, pray that truth, righteousness and justice prevail in our state and in our land.
 
Having done all, standing,
Jim Garlow